Chapter 59 Murder Late at Night
After walking out of the Golden Rose, the cold wind blew snowflakes onto Lin Qi"s face. The piercing cold cleared his hot-blooded mind a little. Ya and Ling came straight at him, without a doubt, the two girls came straight at him.
However, Lin Qi had never offended people from Vias Business Union before, moreover, he had never offended the two girls before. Thinking back to various situations in the last several years in which he provoked someone, unless either Ya or Ling was Dark Horse Hao Si"s fiancee, he couldn"t think of a reason why these n.o.ble and good-looking twins would want to find trouble with him.
The Barwell Family, the empire"s new military aristocratic family. Based on their strength in the imperial army, uniting by marriage with an aristocratic family of Vias Business Union was only expected. Lin Qi walked slowly along an alley while deducing based on the greatest possibility.
That group of nouveau riche from Vias Business Union was wealthy but lacked powerful supporters. In contrast, the Barwell Family had thousands upon thousands soldiers who were willing to risk life and limb for them, but it had no money. If two such families were connected by marriage, their growth would certainly be extremely fast!
Snorting coldly, Lin Qi smashed his fist on the alley"s wall. The slight pain in his fist cleared his mind. He recalled the things Blackbeard taught him when he was young. He quickly threw this biggest possibility aside and started to calculate other possibilities.
There was still a chance that these two haughtily and arrogant girls were invited by the young masters and mistresses of Dunerk specifically to find trouble for Lin Qi. But based on Lin Qi"s understanding of these silkpants, they truly weren"t the kind of people who would do this kind of thing.
Dunerk"s silkpants, they were extravagant, pretentious, conceited, and hypocritical. Compared to their ancestors, these silkpants who had been living lives of luxury since birth didn"t have the least bit of courage to struggle. This was precisely the biggest reason why Lin Qi could treat them as his bag of pocket money when he was younger. They were humiliated by the younger Lin Qi, but unexpectedly, because they were afraid to lose face, no one made this matter public. This was the main reason why Lin Qi could suppress them month after month, year after year.
"These silkpants who were already accustomed to being bullied by me, would they intentionally look for two girls like that to deal with me?"
The possibility of this wasn"t big. It could be cast aside.
Then, who else had this possibility?
The images of countless people were carefully filtered in Lin Qi"s mind. When he left the alley, a male with an elegant purple pupil, hair as bright as fire, exceptionally handsome features, yet only one eye, was locked onto by Lin Qi"s sharp mind.
"Arthur! You playboy, you really gave me a nice surprise!"
Without a doubt, these two girls who found trouble for Lin Qi were strangers, very wealthy, and definitely n.o.bles. In such a piercingly-cold winter, two foreign girls weren"t trying to find a way to return to Vias Business Union immediately and were instead interested in finding a broker in the dock area to bring them to look for fun!
Two wealthy, beautiful, n.o.ble girls unexpectedly looked for a random broker from the dock area, a strange and unfamiliar place where the law and order was always in a mess, to bring them to a similarly strange and unfamiliar place to have fun! Furthermore, upon entering, they fixed their attention on Lin Qi, wanted to gamble with him, and unreasonably implicated Enzo"s life!
Is this something a pair of typical young mistresses from an aristocratic family would do?
Those typical young mistresses should have been like Angel, screaming when catching a glimpse of a pa.s.sing mouse, then fainting in exaggeration, waiting for some young master to rush over and kiss her red lips, waking her with artificial breath!
Those young mistresses, from where did they get the courage to gamble with a person"s life?
"Lovely Arthur, you d.a.m.ned one-eyed son of a b.i.t.c.h, you"re really asking for trouble!"
Without a doubt, this pair of beautiful sisters intentionally came to find trouble for Lin Qi because someone had asked them to. Otherwise, how could everything be so coincidental? Lin Qi just returned to Dunerk, went to the Golden Rose to look for some pocket money for the first time, then came a pair of mysterious girls knocking on the door?
Sneering, Lin Qi squatted down and grabbed a big lump of snow from the ground. After kneading the snow into a solid s...o...b..ll as big as a fist, Lin Qi threw it without consideration. "Pa-pa" sounds could be heard continuously. Ten street lamps around the alley"s mouth were broken to pieces by him, the oil lamps inside the lampshades were shattered, and the flames went out. This long coastal avenue immediately sank into darkness.
Walking forward a short distance and stopping on the seawall, Lin Qi blew a whistle made of a sea snail only as big as a thumb.
A m.u.f.fled sound like that of a tiger growling could continuously be heard. The sound was very low, but had a bizarre penetrating force. In the midst of the whistling cold wind, the sound of the tiger roar rapidly grew louder. In the blink of an eye, this growling sound could be heard throughout half of the dock area.
Soon after, more sounds of tiger roar could be heard from a distant one after another, they spread outward wave after wave. In the blink of an eye, it had spread throughout the whole Dunerk, to the Black Pine Forest on the outskirts, and even to the depths of the forest.
Stealthy figures appeared on ten big and small boats in the harbor. They simultaneously looked at Lin Qi.
Lin Qi played the whistle in concentration. Borrowing the fluctuating frequency and tone, he spread his request.
A large boat over a hundred meters long, built specifically to hunt whales at the edge of the harbor illegally, left the berth in the pitch-black night. With the guidance of an experienced navigator, the whale-hunting boat accurately pushed its way through the thousands big and small boats in the harbor, slowly approaching the seawall where Lin Qi was at.
This kind of over a hundred meter long whale-hunting boat was cla.s.sified as a special type of vessel. It was equipped with a whale-hunting p.r.o.ng of enormous might. This kind of magic-powered whale-hunting p.r.o.ng was used to hunt the high-leveled magical beast called "Single-horned Wild Whale" that could only be found in the Northen Ocean.
Of course, under some special circ.u.mstances, this kind of astonis.h.i.+ngly powerful whale-hunting p.r.o.ng could also be used to hunt other targets - for example, humans!
Ten robust sailors jumped on the seawall. Lin Qi spoke to them in a low voice. Then those sailors hurriedly returned to the whale-hunting boat, moved three sets of whale-hunting p.r.o.ngs, and arranged them neatly on the dock.
A large group of human figures noiselessly walked out of an alley in the distance. With his good eyes, Lin Qi caught sight of a tall and thin man with a strange-looking scythe on his back walking in front of the people. He was one of Blackbeard"s die-hard allies, in charge of all the evil bosses in the dock area, and not much weaker than Tie Chui and Tu Dao, the "Grim Reaper"s right hand" Baltic.
Furthermore, among the people behind Baltic, some were openly carrying military crossbows that were under the empire"s strict supervision.